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Distro help. Please?

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Dark_Me:
Nope no swap partition. I got enough room to make one though. What's it used for anyway?

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Dark_Me ---Nope no swap partition. I got enough room to make one though. What's it used for anyway?
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Whenever you run out of RAM, information gets stored in the swap partition. Windows stores it in a file, called a pagefile. You can use a file for GNU/Linux too, but using a partition is more efficient.

You'd want one of at least 512mb, just to be on the safe side.

Dark_Me:
I see. But if I don't have a swap partition then won't my comp/programs just wait till system resources are freed up?

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Dark_Me ---I see. But if I don't have a swap partition then won't my comp/programs just wait till system resources are freed up?
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I dunno (always have a huge swap partition), but that's probably alot of waiting ;)

Pathos:
Haha, I tried to use firefox on my laptop with damnsmalllinux and 22mb memory.

It just sat there thrashing for half an hour.

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